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NIYODUSENGA Clement

Your articles wanna make me switch to flutter😂. Great article tho

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Denyse

please make it quick 😂😂😂

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insidewhy

All android frameworks kinda suck though and flutter is no exception. Dart is quite a conversative language with comparatively poor type inference and often requires a lot of boilerplate to achieve things that would be simple and DRY in kotlin/typescript. There's also very few libraries in the ecosystem.

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Denyse

nononono, Dart has got a lot of libraries out there, please head to dart.dev for more libraries

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insidewhy

No it really hasn't, and flutter has even less.

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Real Solly M

@insidewhy Your statement is untrue. You don't need a lot of boilerpate to achieve things that would be simple at all.

Dart is no different from C#, Java and Typescript to name a few. In fact, having coded on these 3 especially, you can easily code in dart. You can even achieve the same thing in fewer lines of code in other cases.

I have coded in C# for as long as I can remember, over 15 years and I have been coding in Flutter for the past 3 years. I can tell you that Flutter has made my coding easier and faster because it doesn't require much to get it started. I have also extended my experience into dart (Angel Dart to be specific) and I can tell you that it's better than C#.

I can't compare it much to Typescript as Typescript on its own cannot produce mobile native code like Flutter does.

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insidewhy

Dart is very different to TypeScript, the lack of context aware type inference is very frustrating for a start. You're right that it has many advantages over C# but the inability to merge two interfaces is kinda frustrating. I could list so many more annoying things about dart's type system, when you say "Your statement is untrue" I don't think it comes from a place of understanding of TypeScript at least.